Phoenix Pov

It had already been exactly half an hour since we heard the holographic message from our "Father". Despite knowing that I am part of Stardust and his parents are also considered mine, I did not feel the same emotional impact that my human brother felt. Of course that message affected me a little, but Stardust was lying on a bed, which the Cyphris somehow created with their powers, staring at the ceiling of the guard without saying anything or expressing an emotion on his face.

I wouldn't admit it out loud, but I'm worried about my human self, when the holographic message from our father ended, it was clear that he was crying, and I don't remember the last time he cried in his life, and that we share memories. For now, it would be best to leave him alone until he sorts out his thoughts properly, I know I said it before, but seriously, the revelations of this day really affected him.

"Why the long face, prince?" said Aerion approaching me

"Prince?" I asked confused

"Of course! Since you are the cyphris part of our prince, you would also be considered part of King Virtur's legacy and therefore, you are part of royalty"

"Well, if that sounds logical...and I think I like it" I said smiling with superiority "For now call me prince, until I can find a cool name to complete it"

"What do you mean by that? Don't you have a name?" Terran asks approaching

"The only thing I have is the ridiculous name that Stardust gave me when I was little" I frowned a little remembering it "Phoenix"

"And what's so bad about that name?"

"That it's ridiculous and very simple! For someone as cool as he must have a unique and powerful name!" I rose higher than them and looked down at them "One that scares my enemies when I appear on the scene"

"Then all people will tremble upon hearing the name of! PHOENIX!!" Aerion exclaimed innocently

"What!! NO!!" I yelled irritatedly causing Aerion to flinch "Do you have any idea what it feels like to be trapped inside someone's body and when you can finally think for yourself! You realize that you will be remembered for having the name that literally a little kid could have thought of!"

Terran seeing my reaction, stood in front of me and looked at me sternly "Calm down! Just because you don't like your name doesn't mean you can vent to others!"

I took a deep breath and exhaled to calm myself down "I'm sorry, I guess I'm just not feeling well at all"

"It has something to do with the pri-" he shook his head remembering that he didn't like being called that "I mean, with Stardust like that" we turned our gaze to the human teenager lying on the bed staring up at nothing "Tell me, are you guys able to read each other's thoughts being almost the same person?"

I shook my head from side to side. "No, we can't read each other's thoughts. We have separate minds from each other, but we have a certain connection that allows us to know how the other feels."

"What do you mean?" Aerion asked

"Right now, I feel that Stardust's emotions are: Confusion, Fear, Annoyance, Irritation... and Relief" I paused for a moment to avoid revealing something very personal about him "Knowing the truth about his father has been a big shock for him, and if we add the fact that before he was just a rebellious boy who has many problems with the police, and now he has the supposed duty of saving the world. It's a lot for him to take in, many people would immediately agree to become heroes, but Stardust is not like other people..."

Silence flooded the atmosphere between us again, it was noticeable from their faces that they understood that talking about Stardust's private life is a delicate thing, and believe me when I tell you I know how that feels, I literally have all of Stardust's memories from almost his entire life and I'm really worried about his emotional state

But what worries me the most is if I can-

"I can't believe it!!" A loud scream was heard from where the computer was located

Everyone, except Stardsut who was still staring into space, turned around and saw who caused the scream was Film Action, who was next to Aqua and Cryon, looking at several images on the computer that seemed very familiar

Wait... those images are, Kamen Riders?

I quickly approached to see them better and I could confirm that they were people in armor of different colors and designs, they are definitely Kamen Riders, since all of them had very distinguished belts. Almost the same as the Virtual Driver we have, but I can't be sure since I don't have much knowledge about the culture of the Kamen Riders

"Are those Kamen Riders?" I asked, addressing Film

"Of course they're Kamen Riders! Just look at them!" he said as he split the screen into two between images of the Riders on opposite sides, on the left there was a title that said "Showa Era" and on the right there was a title that said "Heisei Era"

"Here are all the Riders from the Showa Era to the Hensei Era!" Film said with great excitement. "How did this information get here?"

"King Virtur gathered information from all existing worlds to find a way to defeat the Cybrix, in the process he learned of the existence of the Kamen Riders and investigated them until he gathered all the information here and used it to create a Rider system that works and is in tune with our Cyphris powers" Cryon explained in detail.

"That's right, he used everything he learned from the Riders to be able to take advantage of the Cybrix's powers and turn them against him, this whole place is made to help the Kamen Riders in the fight against the Cybrix, that's why he has this information about the Showa Riders and Heisei Riders" added Aqua.

"I'm not all that familiar with Rider culture, so I'll ask: What's this about Shoka and Hensie Riders?"

"It's a bit difficult to explain, so I'll summarize it" Film said as the screen changed to show images of several Riders with somewhat outdated outfits and the title above was -Showa Era- "First I will mention the first generation of Riders, called the Showa Radiers: Ichigo, Nigo, V3, Riderman, X, Amazon, Stronger, Skyrider, Super-1, ZX, Black, Black RX, Shin, ZO and J. All of these Riders fought against evil organizations whose plan was to conquer the world, and after several battles, the Riders achieved peace... momentarily"

"What are you talking about?"

"It turns out that in the early 21st century, new organizations with evil purposes began to appear, but instead of being led by humans, they were led by monsters or supernatural creatures beyond our understanding" Film continued before changing images to new images of riders with much more style and variety of designs on their armor "But fortunately for us, a new generation of Riders called the Heisei Rider appeared. Known as the Kamen Riders Kuuga, Agito, Ryuki, Faiz, Blade, Hibiki, Kabuto, Den-O, Kiva, Decade, W, OOO, Fourze, Wizard, Gaim, Drive, Ghost, Ex-Aid, Build and Zi-O."

"I'm assuming they were much stronger than those in the Showa Era, right?"

"You are right prince, since it turns out that the Heisei Riders had more supernatural abilities than those of the first generation, which made them more powerful" replied Film.

"Is it possible that Stardust and I could have those same abilities? I would like to go back in time and teach someone a lesson from me" I said showing a malicious smile

"First, messing with time is dangerous and only leads to more problems than solutions; and second, the only one so far who can copy the power of the other Riders is Kamen Rider Zi-o, we still have to find out what kind of powers you two can have when you transform into Kamen Riders" Film clarified, then looked at the computer in surprise. "Although it is strange, some parts of the information on the Kamen Riders here are not consistent with the information I have collected."

"It's because it's not the same," Cryon said, drawing the attention of both of us. "From what I understand, in this world, Kamen Riders are considered fictional stories from Japan, things that people created to sell Kamen Rider items, but some have erroneous or incomplete information. Instead, here you have the information of the real Kamen Riders, all their battles, stories, families, and their fates after defeating their enemies."

"You mean this is the true story of the Kamen Riders?"

"Exactly," Cryon nodded. "I usually wouldn't let just anyone read this information since it's so valuable and irreplaceable. But since you're a friend of Stardust, I guess I can let it slide."

We were going to clarify that they had just met, but it wasn't possible because, suddenly, I felt a slight tickling in my head, along with loud sounds that sounded like alarms, I also noticed how Stardust got up from the bed and touched his head as if it hurt, it seems that we feel the same thing.

And then an alarm sounded throughout the place alerting us all, then the computer made the images of the Kamen Rider disappear and showed us some live videos of the city, but what was shown was not pretty to see. You could see the main building of the Cyberse companies, with large red electric rays running through the entire building.

"What's going on?!" Stardust asked, finally reacting.

"Looks like those damn cybrix have finally decided to act!" Terran declared with a serious and angry expression when mentioning the cybrix.

Throughout the history of humanity, humans have been progressing little by little with technology until reaching the present times, where the brilliant scientist, Hope Light, discovered cyberspace, a Digital Universe made entirely of data and of her own. I developed a system capable of making holograms created in cyberspace become organic materials such as fruits and construction materials.

But with the arrival of a new darkness, comes a light, or in this case, a flame of hope that came to face this new threat.

Stardust Stellar, a boy who recently discovered the origin of his supernatural abilities, and now with a new responsibility falling on his shoulders, will have to decide whether to use his power to protect the world and those people who marginalized him and saw him as a monster, or to finally take revenge on the people he always hated.

There is only one thing that is certain

The legend of a new Kamen Rider begins...!

Within a few minutes everything had turned into chaos. At Cyberse Industries, everything was going like a normal day where every employee, scientists, engineers, managers, etc. Everyone was working on a typical normal day. Until the cybrix decided to intervene.

The cybrix known as Lord Korrup placed a corrupted cybercore into the cyber system he created, and a second later, a large reddish electrical discharge was seen running through Hope Light's personal laboratory and spreading throughout the facilities of the entire building, all the people in the building were scared by this situation and suddenly, several alarms began to sound in all parts of the building.

The building's intercom began to speak: "Please evacuate all personnel. Please evacuate all personnel."

Needless to say, people were desperate to get out of Cyberse Industries, it was complete chaos, but amidst all the confusion there was only one woman who seemed to keep calm amidst all the commotion. Hope Light was about to go to her boss's office a few minutes ago to introduce herself, but when the alarms started to sound, she had a bad feeling and decided to go straight to her laboratory, she ran through the people who were going in the opposite direction to quickly get out of the building.

Panic was evident throughout the place, but Hope was more worried about the origin of all this, it couldn't be a coincidence that when she finally manages to perfect the cyber system, minutes later this happens.

When he finally arrived at his laboratory, he noticed that a hooded person was coming out of the door, a cloak covering his entire body. He only noticed the lower part of his face where an amused smile could be seen.

And with it a bloodcurdling whistle as he walked calmly amidst the screams of terror from the people on the lower floors.

*Whistle*

I felt a chill run through my body, seeing this, I decided to hide, feeling a great danger. The hooded person was walking down the corridor still whistling towards where I was, when it seemed that he was going to turn the corner where I was hiding, a portal opened in front of him and he stopped whistling. He said something that made my skin crawl.

"Good luck surviving what's coming, beautiful and intelligent Hope Light" his voice was cold and sinister, he passed through the portal completely and it closed.

I stood still for a while, scared. I don't know why, but that guy made me feel weak and helpless for a moment, but I recovered by slapping myself. I had to concentrate.

I headed to my lab and upon entering, I discovered that everything was worse than I imagined. The walls, ceiling and floor were covered in what looked like glitches in the shape of red and black cubes that were slowly spreading. I didn't dare enter because I didn't know what would happen to me if I touched those glitches. But I looked closely and it seemed that those glichts were coming from my cyber system, which was in a deplorable state.

Whatever they did to my system is causing the whole place to glitch or corrupt (for lack of words to describe it) like a computer, but it's affecting the real world.

"I have to stop this! At this rate, it could cover the entire building and maybe the city!" I thought, alarmed.

I saw that on the ground there were some parts that weren't glitched yet, so with all the courage I had, I jumped on the unglitched parts of the ground, then I made an agile jump on my desk near my machine and began to check the computer, just like my lab, it was full of glitches and errors with binary numbers all over moving erratically.

I was scared by this, whatever that hooded man did, the damage seemed irreparable and suddenly I had to take my hands off the keyboard when I saw that glitches were also coming out of its interior, finished just like the floors and walls. Seeing this, I had no other option, I jumped on top of it to another desk and opened a drawer, where I took out a small rectangular device that seemed to be an old cell phone, but without a screen and only a microphone and several buttons.

Before I could do anything or what I was planning to do, I heard a horrible screeching sound from what seemed to be a bird of enormous size. I was stunned for a few seconds and then noticed that the sound seemed to be coming from everywhere. I felt confused and alert because of this. There I could notice that the cyber system was emitting large reddish discharges.

The brain squeaked for a moment, only for several red cubes to form and give shape to one of the ugliest creatures I have ever seen in my entire life. The... creature in front of me was a humanoid monster with the appearance of a bird, the part of its face was covered with the face of a bird with silver feathers and dark blue eyes, from the neck to the hip it was split in half diagonally, the right side was covered in silver feathers with sharp claws where a hand should be. The left side was covered with very sharp black feathers that were made of steel with a sharp claw at the end of the arm. On its legs it was covered with their respective feathers, black steel feathers on the left side and silver feathers on the right side.

The humanoid bird made another chirping noise and then turned around looking for someone, I was able to hide behind the desk before it saw me, the creature's footsteps could be heard searching the room.

The situation she was in was not very favorable for her, she was surrounded by glitches that could kill her if she touched them or something worse, a monster was looking for her and the only way out of the place was blocked by the creature. This couldn't get any worse...

The loud sound of a wall breaking was heard, when he looked up, he saw that the wall was destroyed, and it wasn't just one, all the walls on the floor were destroyed until he reached the window which was also destroyed. He also noticed that his cyber system had disappeared, leaving only the computer, now completely corrupted.

Just by seeing this, it was obvious that the creature had destroyed the walls and fled out of the building with its machine.

"This is getting worse! I have to stop it!" she exclaimed worried and a little scared. She wanted to go after the monster, but she noticed that there was no longer any surface on which she could stand to avoid the glitches.

She was trapped and she had the only thing that could stop her cyber system from causing more damage. Her gaze shifted to the device in her hand, the one she had pulled out of the drawer before the monster appeared.

A few minutes ago

In another part of the city, before the cyber system corruption occurred, ordinary people could be seen on the streets going about their business as normal, although there were some who were worried and cautious in case an incident like yesterday could occur. The extensive destruction of a block and other nearby streets worried many people, the damage caused would take months to repair and the people who had suffered some physical damage were still recovering in the nearest hospitals or at home in the case of those who were lucky enough to suffer only a few scratches.

However, the people of Canterlot City would not let fear overcome them, the police were already looking for the mysterious motorcyclist who caused the explosions. But they were not the only ones investigating the case.

On one of the streets, two girls were seen walking and talking to each other, one of the girls had a kind of radar in her hands that was buzzing rapidly. To better describe, the girl with the radar was wearing thick-framed glasses that hid her purple eyes. Her hair, which reached down to her back, was tied in a ponytail and was a dark indigo blue with a purple and pink stripe running through it. She wore a simple blue and white short-sleeved blouse with a pink ribbon at the neck and a purple skirt with pink six-pointed stars that seemed to shine. Her name is Twilight Sparkle, one of the smartest girls in the city.

The other girl following her had yellow skin, wavy red and yellow hair, and aqua green eyes. She wore a leather jacket with a red and yellow sun on the back over a light blue blouse, a pair of jeans, and a pair of long black boots, each with a purple flame pattern. Her name is Sunset Shimmer, Twilight's ex-unicorn and best friend.

"Twilight, we've spent the whole afternoon tracking this strange energy, but we haven't found anything." Sunset gave her friend a tired look. "Are you sure your radar still works?"

"I can assure you that my device is still operating at full capacity, but for some strange reason it doesn't seem to detect anything," Twilight replied frustratedly. "I don't understand. It used to be working at full capacity yesterday and this morning, but now it seems to be unable to track traces of the new type of energy. It's as if there's something interfering with it."

Sunset sighed tiredly. "I think it would be best to take a break. Ever since yesterday's incident, you've been working tirelessly."

"How could I rest when a new type of energy was detected yesterday! Ever since I discovered magic, I couldn't find a new unknown source of energy to research!" Twilight exclaimed excitedly. "With it, I'll be able to write a new thesis that could help me enter Elberton."

Sunset is amused to see her friend like that. "If I were you, I would be careful, Twilight. We don't want another Friendship Games incident."

"Don't worry, I already made a mistake that time and I don't plan on letting it happen again."

"Also, we have to make sure that whatever happened yesterday isn't a magical problem. I know you said it was a different kind of energy than our magic, but I can't help but feel like something really bad is about to happen."

It was just yesterday when she was spending a quiet and happy time with her friends at the mall, but all that didn't last long when for some strange reason, her geodes began to glow strangely, as if she was reacting to a threat and extreme danger. And a few hours later, they learned of the incident that Stardust and the cybrix were in before he became a Kamen Rider. This put them on alert, since that kind of disaster usually happened when the Equestrian friend was involved, but with Twilight's radar, they found out that it was a different kind of energy, it acted the same when she had discovered Equestrian magic before the Friendship Games.

They were going to investigate today, but unfortunately they couldn't because they already had their responsibilities to do. Rainbow Dash had training with the soccer club, Applejack had work at Sweet Apple Acress since Applebuck season is approaching, Rarity has her job at Carousel Boutique, Pinkie Pie was helping the Cakes at Sugarcube Corner and Fluttershy was at the Animal Rescue Center.

Each of her friends was busy and Sunset had free time from her job at the Sushi restaurant, she didn't want Twilight to go off on her own to investigate a strange, mysterious energy that was possibly just as dangerous as evil magic.

"Don't you think you're exaggerating?" Twilight replied. "I mean, the chances of something much more random and volatile than magic appearing are less than 5%, don't worry."

They were going to continue talking, but they couldn't because of a loud bang that caught the attention, not only of the girls, but also of the other people who were in the streets. They saw how the Cyberse Industries building was falling pieces of walls of the building and broken glass. And then it was seen in the sky like a bird the size of an adult person was flying through the city, but if they looked closer at the creature, they would see that it was not a bird, it is a humanoid creature shaped like a bird, holding a strange device that despised several red and black glitches.

That was when the creature had landed in the middle of a crossroads, just as a car was driving by, seeing the monster, it got scared and swerved, crashing into a light pole. The other people on the street, including Sunset and Twilight, the latter had her radar emitting various noises and moving from one side to the other where she was directing the monster that fell from the sky.

The monster placed the glitched machine on the ground and when it came into contact with the pavement, a reddish electric current spread across the ground and reached the electricity poles. The reddish electricity ran through the cables and spread at great speed through all the electric poles in the city. The people frightened by the monster and by the electricity that ran through it, ran scared trying to get as far away from the humanoid bird as possible.

The only ones who didn't run were Sunset and Twilight, who despite being confused by what was happening, were determined to stop whatever the monster in front of them was. They both grabbed their geodes that were around their necks and began to grow pony ears on their heads, with Twilight adding a pair of wings on their backs.

"Sunset, do you know what that thing is?" Twilight asked, somewhat afraid of the monster's appearance.

"I don't know! That thing is definitely not something created by magic! I don't feel the same energy signature as us!" she said, turning on her cell phone and dialing the number of her friends' group chat. "I'll call the others!"

As the other people ran away in fear, reddish electricity spread throughout the city, this did not cause any visible damage to the people or the houses or buildings in the city. But the electricity began to gather in certain areas of the city. When the electricity gathered, a small vortex of red and black glitches was seen, and in a few seconds later, several red and black cubes began to emerge that were coming together and forming robots with a human appearance, they had black and gray helmets that did not show their faces, several metallic parts throughout their body, decorated with red lines and the parts where they were not covered in metal, were glitched in a red and black color.

The Virtronics had appeared, whose sole purpose was to destroy all organic life they encountered.

POV Stardust

Everything had become chaos, it could be seen through the cameras that were all over the city (which were hacked a long time ago by the cyphris, according to them, because they were bored and wanted to see what the lives of humans are like). They saw several of the virtronics that chased us yesterday, they were going for the people they found, several tried to escape from them, but others tried in vain to resist. Several of them were police officers who were in those areas, they used their weapons to try to destroy them, but the metal of whatever they were made of seemed to be immune to the bullets, as they just bounced off them. The policemen were only able to buy time for the civilians to escape in time, but more kept appearing and further.

"This looks like an invasion!" Film exclaimed seriously as he looked at other security cameras in the city.

"Is this what our father meant by opening a connection between the real world and cyberspace?!" Phoenix asked, alarmed by this.

"Regularly, sometimes they tend to be more ruthless" Aqua replied

"The cybrix usually send their combat robots, the virtronics, first to measure the strength of the inhabitants of the world they conquer. It is strange that they have not yet ended any life" said Cryon staring at the virtronics attacking the humans who were

Several SWAT patrols were seen arriving at the areas where there were more virtronics. With better weapons it seemed that they could push back the hordes of them, but they would not last forever,

"How can we stop this?! There must be some kind of leader to lead you, like what happened yesterday with the blade cybrix!" he said alarmed.

"I found it!" Film exclaimed triumphantly, but then he became entangled, "But it doesn't seem like things are going well for the people there."

A bird-like cybrix was seen on camera attacking the people who were there, many tried to flee. But a light pole was seen being thrown at the cybrix, it dodged it and a girl with pony ears and wings on her back was seen lifting another light pole and throwing it at the cybrix who dodged it. Another girl with pony ears and a ponytail in her hair was seen helping people flee the place.

"It's Sunset Shimmer and Twilight Sparkle!" I exclaimed happily. Film

"Who?" I asked confused.

"The magical girls of CHS. For a moment I had forgotten about them, they could defeat the virtronics"

"However, I doubt she stands a chance against that cybrix, especially since there are only two of them and from what I heard from them, they have to be all 7 together for them to do their most powerful magic or whatever they do" I said looking seriously at their situation.

I haven't seen Sparkle in a long time, but I know that the psychic magic she has and her friend's won't be enough to defeat him, I myself felt the strength of some first hand

"Then let's go help them! Let's transform into Kamen Rider and crush that cybrix!" Phoenix exclaimed confidently and determinedly. He stood in front of me with his eyes totally determined "LET'S GO STARDUST! Duty calls!"

"..."

"..."

"Hey? Are you okay?" Film asked, noticing my indecisive face.

"... Passed"

"WHAT?!!" everyone exclaimed, except Stardust, at my response.

"What's wrong?! This is a life or death situation! If we don't do something, people will die!"

"The police will take care of it, maybe they'll find a way to confront the cybrix and I won't have to intervene," I said expressionlessly.

"By the time they've done that, they'll have destroyed the city!" Phoenix exclaimed angrily.

"Dusty is right! You are the only one who can defeat them!" Aerion agreed with Phoenix.

"That world is lost if you do nothing, prin-Stardust" Cryon refuted.

"They need you, please Stardust" Aqua asked in a pleading tone.

"We all know you can kick the butts out of those virus pieces," Voltaris said.

"You have a responsibility to this world prince, you must fight the cybrix to save this world" said Terran looking at him seriously

"Then why don't you just give my powers to someone else! I don't want anything to do with this!" I shouted angrily, scaring everyone else except Phoenix.

"Stardust, you said earlier that you didn't want to get involved in other people's problems, but this is bigger than you or me." Film grabbed him by the shoulder. "People will die if we don't do something."

"Stop talking in plural, I'm the one who's going to fight against the cybrix, I'm the one who has the power to destroy them..." I was silent for a moment "... But I don't want to get involved in other people's business, I'm sick of all this"

"But you can't see the whole problem! This involves us all, this includes you and our mother! We have the power to do this!"

"Just because we have the power to do it, doesn't mean we have to!!" I exclaimed equally angrily. "You have my memories yourself!! You should know that every time I get into something, I'm always the one who suffers the consequences!! Whenever I try to help someone, I'm always the one on the receiving end of the combined anger and disgust as if I'm the one who caused the problem, even the people I help are completely ungrateful!! I'm always the one who gets blamed for all the bad things that happen to others!!!"

"I'M SICK OF IT!!!! I don't care if I sound selfish!! I'm tired of receiving insults, abuse and hateful looks!! Let the people of the city fend for themselves!!"

Phoenix, tired of this, charged at me and threw me to the ground. This took everyone by surprise.

"HEY!" I exclaimed angrily.

"That's what you deserve for being selfish!" Phoenix exclaimed, equally angry. "What happened to you, what happened to us! It doesn't matter anymore! The only thing that matters now is stopping the cybrix!"

"Stop talking in plural!! All the bad things only happened to me!! You were just asleep in me while I was living a fucking hell!"

"If you're going to be like that, then I think it would be better for me to go on my own!" Phoenix exclaimed angrily.

"Ha! Without me you wouldn't last against them!"

"Of course I can! Unlike you! I'm not a coward!!"

"I'm not a coward!"

"Of course you are!! Every time we face a problem, we face it head on!! Why are you suddenly so selfish now?!!"

"You're telling me to use the damn power that's caused me so much trouble all my life!!! And to use it to protect the same people who made me live through hell! I'm tired of all this crap!"

"..." Phoenix remained silent as if he was thinking about what to say next. He let out a tired sigh. "Everyone has a breaking point, and it seems that you have almost reached yours." He looked up at me. "I understand that you don't want to do this because of everything that has happened to us, but remember what Mom told us." He recited the following words: "Perseverance will always triumph over the pain and cruelty of this world."

"..."

"I know more than anyone that you are tired of repeating the same cycle of hate and sadness, and your only intention is to help others, but right now we have the opportunity to finally use our power to help others, but this time, now that we know what it is, we will be able to control it and use it wisely."

"People will find a way to make me look like the bad guy."

A memory came to my mind, I saw myself as a 10-year-old boy, feeling avoided by others, several children moved away from me, or their mothers were the ones who pushed them away so they wouldn't get close to me.

A memory of my childhood self helping a girl who was being chased by bullies a year older than her. But that girl would run away from me in fear as she watched me leave the older boys on the ground with several scratches, and me unharmed.

I remember another one when I was starting high school at Crystal Prep, how I tried to make friends, but they only stayed away from me because of the rumors of my superhuman abilities when I was a child, and those who approached me only did so to get closer to my mother.

"Maybe... but I think it's worth trying, at least once, you know our mother always compared us to the heroes of the stories or animes we watched"

"And what does that have to do with this?"

"That heroes have always gone through different difficulties, but they have always taught us to resist one more second" Phoenix pointed at me with his wing "Just try, try one more time to help someone from the bottom of your heart, I can assure you that this time it will not be like the other times, the fact that you have endured so much contempt that you did not deserve just for helping others without receiving anything shows that you have the heart of a hero"

"The time has come for you to become a true hero, to become the Kamen Rider that this world needs."

The other Cyphris and Film were quiet throughout the discussion between us. They were just getting to know me and knew nothing about me and what we were talking about, but from the little we said, they could understand that the life I had was not easy, and yet I tried to do the right thing, in my own way, and only received that the negative rumors about me increased.

I turned away so I wouldn't have to look at his or the others' faces, closed my eyes tightly and tried to think.

Since I was a child, my mother always told me that I am special, that I have great abilities that others did not have and for that reason it is my responsibility to use them to help others. I remember that I really liked watching cartoons and comics of heroes saving others, having powers that they used for the common good. I tried to do the same with my own power, but it did not turn out as I expected.

The only thing I managed to do was make other people afraid of me, and that's when the rumors started that I was a monster or a freak. When I realized this, I tried to avoid using my superhuman strength, speed and agility again, but I couldn't. The teachings and ideals that my mother gave me were always in my mind, even when I distanced myself from others and wanted to always be alone, every time I see someone in trouble, I can't help but try to help them, of course, sometimes I make mistakes or they just run away from me instead of thanking me, but that doesn't matter to me.

Haha. Now I realize I'm an idiot, I used to say that someone who helps another person without receiving anything in return would make them a complete idiot.

But I don't mind being an idiot at all.

Yesterday, when I was expelled from CPA, I was going to give up on those stupid ideals of helping others, if it weren't for the fact that Film needed help, then I would have been definitive in completely giving up on every trace of kindness and sympathy that was within me.

If I hadn't resisted for even a second longer, then I would have completely ignored Phoenix's voice and walked away.

Who knows where that would have taken me.

"..." I turned back to the others, who were staring at me waiting for my answer. "I've made my decision." I let out a tired sigh and opened my eyes with a determined look. "Of all the things you said, there's one thing I agree with you on."

"Just one? Really?" I asked somewhat disappointed.

"It would be very easy for me to stay here without worrying about the well-being of others. And of course, it would be difficult to go there and fight with the cybrix and the others that will keep coming" I clenched my fists tighter "But... IT WOULD BE EVEN MORE DIFFICULT! To stay here doing nothing while other people suffer knowing that I can do something to stop it!"

The others smiled when they heard me say that, especially Phoenix. "That's just what I wanted to hear."

"Just to be clear, I'm still not entirely comfortable with the idea of being a hero, I'm only doing it so I can shut up all the people who called me a criminal or a monster and show them how wrong they were."

"Yeah sure, keep telling yourself that until you believe it" Film said laughing a little, the laughter was followed by the other Cyphris, except Cryon and Terran, who smiled approvingly.

"If this is what our future prince is like, then there is still hope for this world" thought Terran, happy to see that Stardust has a noble heart.

"But seriously, you should go, we've already wasted a lot of time and the virtronics seem to rule the streets" Film pointed out, looking at the cameras as the virtronics continued to destroy some parts of the city.

"You're right, come on..." I turned my gaze to Phoenix "... Virtuix"

"Virtuix?" he asked, confused by the way I called him.

"You said you wanted a new name because the name Phoenix is very simple. So I decided to combine the words Virtual and Phoenix. Virtuix, do you like it?"

"What do I like?" He paused for a moment, then smiled. "I like that name! An original and unique name for me! From now on I will be known as Virtuix!"

"Well, congratulations on your new name, Virtuix!" Aerion exclaimed happily.

"That's enough talk! Let's make it Stardust!" he said as he wrapped himself in fire and headed towards my hand, where he turned into a memory card the size of my hand, with the image of a Phoenix on it. It's the Cybercore Phoenix.

"Let's make it Virtuix!" I said as I placed the Virtual-Driver on my waist

"This is definitely my favorite part!" Film said excitedly watching the transformation sequence.

I placed my Cybercore into the driver slot and slid it in, only to hear a robotic voice come out and say, "Virtualize! Phoenix Protocol Engaged!"

Finally, I inserted the Phoenix cybercore into the slot on the left side of the driver so that it entered into it "Henshin!" I said to make an explosion of digital cubes come out that enveloped my entire body like yesterday, the cubes were assembling into a holographic armor that solidified when all the digital cubes connected together with a circuit that began to appear throughout my body, with digital flames establishing themselves in representation of a phoenix that appeared behind me

"ETERNAL FLAME! WINGS OF FREEDOM THAT PIERCE THE DARKNESS!"

I transformed back into a Kamen Rider in front of all the Cyphris, who seemed to be impressed, including Film, who despite having seen this yesterday, as a Kamen Rider fan, couldn't get enough of watching the transformation sequence.

"Now I have to figure out how to get to Canterlot City before they destroy it" I said to myself trying to think of a plan

"Don't worry about it, your father left you many gifts to make up for not being present in your entire life" said Aqua as Cryon was seen bringing an object that at first glance looked like a common Smartwatch.

"A Smartwatch, no offense, but I don't understand what use it will serve" said Film without understanding

"This isn't a regular watch, this is the ChronoLink, one of your father's inventions, and it has an extra accessory with it" Cryon explained and then pressed a few buttons and created a small circuit where the holographic image of a sharecropping motorcycle was seen on the round screen of the watch.

Then several blue digital cubes emerged from the ChronoLink and gathered together to form a blue holographic motorcycle, eventually solidifying. The motorcycle had a sleek, streamlined design, with curved lines and polished metallic surfaces. It was clearly designed for both speed and combat. It was mostly silver and red, with some yellow and orange lines for style.

Under the mask, he was with his mouth wide open. I consider myself a motorcycle fan. The bike I see in front of me is a marvel, as if it were taken from a futuristic science fiction movie.

She's a beauty, isn't she?

Yes, and from what I hear, I can hear you in my head when I'm as Kamen Rider.

This ability is amazing, although it reminds me that we need to think of a good name to call ourselves when we are transformed.

We'll think about that later, I want to try giving this beauty a try, this is a hundred times better gift anyone could have given me.

"What do you think?" Aerion asked.

"That's definitely one of the coolest things I've ever seen!" Film exclaimed in fascination.

"Sorry Film!" I quickly climbed onto my new motorcycle "But this is mine and I'll be the first to try it!"

"Don't forget this!" Cryon said, throwing the ChronoLink, and I took it and put it on my right wrist.

Several sounds of metal parts moving were heard, and a secret door was seen opening, giving way to a kind of rectangular portal that was light blue in color.

"By going through that you will be able to enter cyberspace and quickly reach the city!" said Voltier pointing at the portal.

"Ok! I'm ready!" I said to start the engine and make it roar "Amazing, a masterpiece like yours should have a good name... I know" I grabbed the handle firmly, turned it

"Let the circuit flow, Cyberstream, accelerate!" with the already baptized, Cyberstream, drive until reaching the portal and entering the portal disappearing.

"And there goes the hero," Film commented vaguely, glancing back at the layers of the city being torn apart by the virtronics. "I hope they make it in time."

"Don't worry, just by looking at the look on Prince Stardust and Virtuix's face, I know they are fully committed to defeating the cybrix," Terran replied in a motherly manner, the others nodded at this.

But then, someone noticed that someone was missing. "Hey," Voltaris called, causing the others to turn their gaze to him. "Have you seen Aerion before the prince and Virtuix left?"

The others looked around the lair, but noticed that it was true, Aerion was nowhere to be found.

"Not again!" Terran said frustrated as she realized where Aerion was.

Back where the cybrix and the 2 magical girls were, their situation was going from bad to worse. The cybrix had already caused a lot of destruction, the good thing is that the people who were there and some workers of Cyberse Industries had managed to escape from the monster in time thanks to Sunset and Twilight, but the same cannot be said of them.

The two girls were seen hiding behind a destroyed car, very injured and tired. After several minutes of fighting the cybrix, they realized that they couldn't do anything against the monster. If the other girls were there, they could use their rainbow laser to defeat the monster, but she had already talked to them on her cell phone before and they said that they were also busy.

Applejack and Rainbow Dash are together going to help them, but they encountered some groups of virtronics that were attacking several people, so they had to detour to help. Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie were on the south side of the city, when they also ran into other groups of virtronics that upon seeing them, attacked them mercilessly.

Her friends were fighting the mysterious robots that coincidentally appeared at the same time the monster appeared, so they won't be able to come in time, and the police were just as busy dealing with the virtronics. They are alone now.

"Are you okay, Twilight?" Sunset asked worried about her friend's injuries, Twilight had to fight while she evacuated the other people.

"I-I'm fine, just a little sore," Twilight replied, grabbing her right shoulder where she suffered her most recent injury. "But we still have problems. How are we going to deal with that monster?" She turned her gaze to the cybrix that was still hovering around the corrupted cyber system that continued to release several Gitches that continued to spread across the ground.

Sunset opened her eyes as she saw how the glitches on the ground had spread at great speed. "It can't be, how did we get into this situation?"

"I don't know, from this distance, I can't say much about that machine, but it seems to be a power generator that manages to spread those glitches on the ground and will continue to spread until it consumes the entire city."

"How long do we have to destroy that thing?"

"I estimate that it will take about 5 hours for it to spread throughout the city. If that monster is so intent on protecting it, it must be very important," Twilight deduced, seeing how protective the monster is of the machine.

"If I'm able to distract it, then you might be able to get close enough to destroy it," I ask Twilight.

"I'm not sure, but we can't let that glitch keep growing, but be careful"

Sunset nodded in response. Although it was a very risky plan, with just the two of them they had to do it anyway or simply run away, but that last option was out of the question due to the serious situation they were in.

But before they could do anything, loud gunshots were heard that were directed at the corrupted machine, but the bird monster got in the way, receiving the shots, which seemed to have managed to hurt it, since it was knocked to the ground with some smoke coming out of its body.

The two girls were surprised by this when they turned to see an adult woman with green eyes, blue hair wearing a wrinkled and somewhat torn lab coat, it is also worth noting that in her hands she had a kind of futuristic gun showing that she was the one who fired the shot.

"That was for stealing my first cyber system! You underdeveloped bird!" the woman exclaimed with courage and determination.

The woman did not wait any longer and began to shoot again towards her Cyber system, but the cybrix recovered and launched several metal feathers from its left side, preventing them from damaging the machine and then ran towards the woman to attack her.

She didn't let him and shot again, but this time the cybrix bird resisted them and slowly approached her. The woman tried to retreat, but it was too late, the monster attacked her, causing her to drop her gun and fall to the ground.

The girls saw that and were quick to react. Twilight lifted the car with her magic and threw it at the bird monster, but it noticed her presence and used its claws to easily destroy it.

Sunset saw the gun that had hurt the monster, with that in mind, she ran to it and dove to the ground to pick it up and started shooting at the monster once more. She couldn't aim well because of the recoil, but still some laser shots managed to damage it.

"Twilight! Go get the lady in the robe, I'll hold him off!" Sunset said as she backed away, continuing to shoot at the cybrix, who backed away, taking him by surprise again.

"But-!"

"Don't worry, I'll be fine! Go!" Sunset insisted.

Twilight, at the insistence of her best friend, ran towards the blue-haired woman, surrounding the monster that wanted to approach Sunset to kill her.

Twilight arrived where the lady who was recovering was. "Ma'am, are you okay?" she asked, helping her up.

"Yes, thanks for the help, but what happened to the monster?" she asked alarmed.

"She's being entertained by my friend, who should come back to help her!"

Before she could leave, the woman grabbed her arm. "Wait! Did you find a small device that looks like a remote control?! I had it in my pocket!"

Twilight "I'm sorry, but I haven't seen it-" but I don't finish the sentence when I notice a small device between the small rubble of a building "You don't mean that one!" I point out.

The woman turned around and was glad to see him. "Yes!" she said, quickly grabbing him and starting to press several buttons as she headed to the edge of the glitch where the cyber system was. "With this, I can put an end to all of this."

"What are you doing? Going near there is dangerous."

"Setting the countdown for the self-destruction of my cyber system" the woman replied, continuing to press some buttons.

"Self-destruct?! He plans to crash that machine!"

"I've always been careful with all the things I invent, and I always like to have a little safety mechanism, in chaos like this" once she put the correct password, she was about to press the last button she needed, but...

A laser passed through the sight of the two women and destroyed the device that Hope Light had.

"No!!" she exclaimed frightened when she saw her last chance to fix this whole mess had been destroyed in front of her eyes.

"Where did that come from?!" Twilight asked, looking around to find a person who could have fired that laser.

What none of the women had noticed was that there was someone sitting on the edge of a building watching all the chaos the cybrix had caused, and the one responsible for destroying the cyber system's self-destruct device.

"I'm sorry Hope Light, but I couldn't let you ruin my fun, anyway the result is going to be the same, once cyber corruption enters a world, there's nothing they can do to stop it, although I expected those magical girls to put up more of a fight, but what a disappointment" said Korrup disappointed in how weak they were.

A scream of pain was heard that caught the attention of those present, they saw how the cybrix bird had Sunset's neck in its right hand, who was drowning from not being able to breathe properly.

"Sunset!!" Twilight screamed worriedly trying to run to stop the monster from killing her.

Hope, seeing the scene, tried to run to avoid it, although she knew they wouldn't arrive in time.

And Korrup was watching all this with a childish smile as if a child was watching his favorite show.

Sunset watched her friend run, but she knew she wouldn't make it in time. With that, memories of her friends came to mind, as if her whole life was flashing before her eyes. "Is this the end...?" she asked herself mentally. "I'm sorry, girls... I'm sorry, Princess Twilight... and I'm also sorry for not being able to apologize to you... Princess Celestia."

Just as the cybrix was about to sink its claws into its skull, the loud noise of a motorcycle approaching was heard, and before they could turn to look, a futuristic motorcycle drove at full speed and then rammed the cybrix and at the same time, grabbed the fire-haired girl with one arm, saving her life, sending the cybrix flying.

Everyone was shocked at this, Hope Light and Twilight Sparkle had faces of shock and confusion upon seeing the new guy with armor and a motorcycle that seemed to be taken from the future. Sunset, half conscious, was relieved and shocked that when she thought she was going to die, a guy in armor would save her from death.

But the one who seemed to be most shocked was Korrup, although he couldn't be seen because of his hood, his eyes were as wide as plates and his mouth was half open, and the only thing he could say when he saw the Kamen Rider was: -Impossible...-

"Hey girl, are you okay?" I asked, trying to hide my concern as much as possible.

Sunset, still in shock, pulled herself together and separated from me while still hugging her. "Y-yes, thanks for saving me."

"Well, I'm glad I made it in time," I said as I exited the cyberstream and walked over to the cybrix who was standing up. "You better get away from this, things are going to get ugly." Once I finished saying that, I left. walked to cybrix ave

"SUNSET!!" Twilight screamed as she approached her friend and hugged her tightly. Small sobs were heard. "I'm so glad you're okay! For a moment I thought I would lose you!"

"Relax, thanks to him I'm fine" he said looking at me while he was in front of the cybrix

"Who is he?"

"I don't know, but thanks to him I'm alive, so I guess he's on our side," Sunset answers her friend's question.

Hope Light didn't say anything, just staring at the armored guy, as if she had seen him before and her motherly instinct made her worry about him. While Korrup didn't say anything and didn't show his evil smile from before, he was expressionless and just stared at Stardust.

"Hey Cybrix, why don't you do us all a favor and mess with someone on your level," I said defiantly.

The 3 girls were surprised to hear how I called the monster, proving that I do know the cybrix. "Cybrix?" Hope asked herself.

After that, the Cybrix started speaking in a language that the women present there didn't understand, but that I could understand "Damn bag of bones, an inferior being like you won't humiliate me like this!"

"Well guess what, this bag of bones will be the one to shred all the corrupted data you have!" I got into a fighting stance "Let the simulation of your defeat begin"

That was the only thing I said before the cybrix came towards me, I blocked it with my forearm guard and with my other arm I inserted a strong blow with fire surrounding it which did much more damage and sent it flying.

"I derived it in one fell swoop" Twilight exclaimed in surprise, someone who Sunset and Hope

"He has greater strength, endurance and agility than a human. Is it because of the armor he's wearing?" Hope asked herself, then turned her gaze to the peculiar belt he had. "Or is it because of the belt?"

The cybrix got up in pain, but his anger made him ignore it and he threw several metallic feathers, which I had to dodge, but some of them grazed me. I turned my body and kicked him horizontally with my leg on fire, destroying some of the feathers. The cybrix took advantage to attack me, which made me put my arms forward, he gave me a couple of blows to my chest and face, but I deflected my face by crouching and knocked him to the ground with a kick to the legs.

I jumped up and approached the cybrix lying on the ground to give a strong blow to its face, but its wings spread quickly and it managed to dodge my blow at great speed, causing it to break part of the ground. The bird flew away from my reach and launched several of its metallic feathers at me again, but I couldn't evade when it flew in a dive, scratching my chest, and it did it two more times, knocking me to the ground and growling in pain.

"No!" Sunset and Twilight shouted as they watched me fall to the ground in pain.

"He won't be able to fight fairly if he keeps flying," Hope growled, seeing that the armored man was at a disadvantage.

Sunset heard that and remembered the laser gun she had before, she saw that it was still lying on the ground, so she acted quickly picking it up "Hey! Rider in armor!" that caught my attention "Use this!" she threw the laser gun and I instinctively got up and jumped catching it

I acted quickly when he came back down towards me and shot him with the gun which launched 3 laser beams at his body which made him swerve and fall to the ground. He gave a grunt of pain as he got up, I didn't give him time to recover and I started hitting him. The cybrix defended himself and hit me back trying to scratch me with his claws, I defended myself with my arms and launched a game to get him away from me, but he blocked it with the metal part of his body. There it occurred to me to try to light my foot on fire and I did, melting part of his feathers and he moved away from me screaming in pain. And I took advantage of the moment to shoot him again with the laser beam.

"Damn it! How can a human like you have that kind of power!" he exclaimed, looking at me with hatred. "And even more so! Having a weapon capable of harming us!"

"I told you! Your first mistake was underestimating me!" I said to continue shooting at him making him retreat "Your second mistake was underestimating human intelligence" I ran to give him a few strong blows that he blocked, and he rose into the air again to keep our distance

Damn coward.
Wait Stardust, I think you're missing one important little detail.
I don't have time for guessing, say it quickly Virtuix.
I am a phoenix, and when we combine our powers you basically have all the powers a phoenix has, including flying.
What?! I can really fly?!
Try to imagine it! Visualize in your mind circuit-shaped lines wrapped in intense fire! You are a Phoenix! Become one with the flames!
Become one with the flames...?

I closed my eyes and tried to visualize it in my mind. I felt like several lines were joining together and forming several paths, then I visualized an intense fire that ran through my entire body, but I didn't feel any kind of heat, rather I felt it as something natural and I also felt like that energy passed through my entire body towards my back where the fire formed wings.

I opened my eyes and noticed that I had indeed created a pair of thin, fine wings of fire on my back. I noticed the surprised looks of the girls who were looking at me and my mother's mouth was open in shock.

The cybrix noticed this and freaked out. "What?!" I didn't give him time to say anything else, I flew towards him and hit him hard on his ugly face, but he quickly recovered and hit me back. Now an exchange of blows began between us flying through the sky colliding with each other to connect blows.

"He can fly too!" Sunset shouted, watching as I kicked him in the last clash in the air to separate us and fly in different directions again.

"But how can it be scientifically possible to fly with wings made of fire?! And how can fire be kept in the form of wings?!"

Hope Light didn't say anything, she just continued to watch everything that happened.

In the air, I blocked his claws with my right arm and used my other arm to fire the laser gun, but unconsciously, a part of my fire entered the gun and launched a strong laser charged in flames that caused a small explosion that sent the cybrix bird crashing to the ground, growling in pain, coincidentally, it crashed near the corrupted cyber system full of glitches around it.

I noticed that the weapon began to heat up as I saw some electric sparks coming out of it, I guess it couldn't withstand the intensity of my flames. As I looked at the cybrix in pain getting up from the ground, but seeing that he could barely stand, I saw an opportunity.

"The conditions for victory have been set, it's time to purge the corruption" I said as I pulled the cybercore out of the driver and slid it back in, reinserting it afterwards.

-"Cyber Flare Breaker"-

A light illuminated my right foot which I used to jump up and behind me the image of a giant phoenix reappeared and let out a loud screech. The phoenix and my kick synchronized to go directly to the cybrix bird that gave a last cry before exploding along with the cyber system.

The girls when they saw that the monster had been destroyed felt very relieved, but then they noticed that even though the monster was destroyed along with the cyber system, there was a glitch that continued to spread throughout the area, they noticed that the guy in the armor did not seem to be affected by the glitch despite standing on top of it.

"What's going on?! This glitch is supposed to disappear if the cyber system was destroyed!"

What's going on with this glitch? Why won't it go away?
It seems that cyber corruption, once introduced into a world, cannot be reversed, even if we destroy the machine that opened the connection between this world and cyberspace.
So everything we did was in vain?!
Maybe not, I mean, if we could destroy the cybrix, don't you think we can get rid of cyber corruption?
What do you propose?
We do the same as before, working together as one being.
What a cliché... but I can't think of anything, so we have nothing to lose by trying.

"Don't worry!" he replies to my mother. "I won't allow cyber corruption to continue to advance in this world," I said, getting closer to the glitch or cyber corruption.

"What are you going to do now?" Twilight asked curiously, despite knowing that this glitch, or cyber corruption as she called it, is dangerous, but you already saw how Stardust managed to defeat the monster that magic couldn't have much effect on.

"Here we go" I whispered to myself as I knelt at the edge of the cyber corruption and placed both of my hands on it.

When I put them on, immediately the cyber corruption entered my body and armor wanting to infect my entire body, I worried for a moment, but I ignored it and focused on the cyber energy that was in me. My father knew that I had the power to defeat the cybrix and save this world, the way he told me makes me think that he knew about cyber corruption and that somehow he knew that I could avoid it.

If I really have the power to stop millions of people from dying, then please give me the power to burn down all cyber corruption!

My armor began to glow in red lines and the cyber corruption, which was wrapping around all of my arms up to my shoulders, began to disappear as it was absorbed into my body and replaced with a digital fire made up of three different colors: white, gold, and red.

This fire seemed to be completely burning Cybercorruption causing it to spread throughout all the infected areas and zones, the fire grew until it reached the Cyberse Industries building, specifically Hope Light's laboratory, burning it completely, but the strangest thing is that these flames began to disappear and it was seen how the whole place was as it was before Cybercorruption, no burns or debris were seen there, even the walls destroyed by the cybrix had been repaired.

The two magical girls and Hope were even more surprised than before, they saw how the floors, walls and buildings that were being covered by cyber corruption were as good as new.

And it's all because of the mysterious man in armor who had destroyed the monster and was kneeling breathing heavily.

As for me, he was very tired which was strange. He may have done some damage to me when fighting the bird cybrix, but he didn't feel as tired as he did now, he felt like he was going to faint at any moment.

Hey, are you okay? I felt that several of your joints were heavy, even your eyelids were heavy!
I'm fine... just a little tired
You're going to faint at the rate you're going, let's go before you detransform in front of your mother and those two magical girls from CHS.
Yes, you're right, let's go.

I got up from the ground and used my ChronoLink to call my Cyberstream bike, which activated automatic mode and came to my side, I was able to sit down with difficulty, but before I could leave...

"WAIT!" Twilight Sparkle screamed, making me stop dead in my tracks. I watched as she and her fire-haired friend approached me and began to ask me, "Who are you? And what was that thing? You called it Cybrix before, didn't you?"

I wasn't in the mood to answer questions, I needed to get out of there before I passed out, but before I could speak the voice of a certain familiar Cyphris was heard.

"I can answer your questions!" Aerion said, appearing out of nowhere, surprising us all. "Those monsters were cybrix, unknown life forms from cyberspace whose goal is to destroy all organic life, basically they want to eliminate all humanity and those who were related to it, corrupting their entire world and moving on to the next world." He explained hastily, seeing me on the verge of fainting, but I stayed strong, avoiding fainting.

He spoke again before the girls could ask anything about Aerion. "But don't worry! Why?! Because he's here!" he pointed at me dramatically. "He's the heir to all the powers of the Cyphris of Cyberspace! The hero that the world needs to face this new threat! The prince to the throne of Cyberspace who came to eliminate all the cyber corruption from this and other worlds! He's the one who inherited the title of the Kamen Riders and who will defend what his ancestors fought to protect!! You are the lucky ones to be present here to witness the birth and the beginning of the legend of this legendary Kamen Rider-!!"

Before he could digest a silly name with which he would name me, I covered his beak even though I was exhausted, the girls were, between confused and surprised by the aptitude of the talking bird that appeared out of nowhere that seemed to know the so-called Kamen Rider.

Umm... you realize my name is related to the word Virtual and what we become is called Virtual Driver. I think you know what I'm getting at.
If you can read my thoughts, then let's use that name.
That seems fine to me.

"If you want to know who I am, I'm just a Kamen Rider who happened to be passing by. Codename: Kamen Rider Virtualx"

"Kamen Rider Virtualx?" Sunset repeated, confused by the name. "What's so special about the name Kamen Rider?"

I didn't answer him, I just started my bike and left the place as quickly as possible, ignoring the questions of Sparkle and her other friend.

"No way! Now the only person who might know what's really going on here is gone," Twilight replied, disappointed that she hadn't been able to gather more information.

"And it left us with many more questions, like, What was that strange talking green bird?"

"Do you think we'll see him again?" Twilight asked her friend.

"I have a feeling it will be like that, but it may not be under pleasant circumstances," he said, looking at the desolate and empty street they were on.

Hope Light was silent all this time, only watching the one called Kamen Rider Virtualx, something about that Rider made her familiar in some way and she could notice that Virtualx before leaving was very tired, almost on the verge of fainting. She did not dare to approach him as she was still somewhat thoughtful about how this whole matter ended. She felt in a certain way that this was her fault for having created the cyber system, which caused that monster to appear and almost killed her and those girls.

"Virtualx... thank you" the least he could have done was thank her, it's a shame he couldn't have stayed to be able to thank her properly

Korrup was silently watching the battle the whole time, when it ended he believed that the Kamen Rider was going to die upon coming into contact with the cyber corruption, but proving once again that he was wrong, not only did he manage to survive, but he was able to somehow burn the cyber corruption.

And the worst thing is that somehow, those flames also affected the virtronics that came out of the small connections of this world with cyberspace, although it did not destroy them, it managed to send them back to cyberspace completely stopping the conquest of this world.

Korrup was dejected at this situation, no sound was heard from him and he did not move, it seemed as if he had died standing up, but suddenly, he began to move a little and a small malicious laugh was heard, which after a few seconds, turned into maniacal laughter.

"I can't believe it!! After all this time, I can't remember the last time I was wrong about something!!" he said, still laughing maniacally. "It's so frustrating to see how wrong I was to believe that this world was unprotected!"

He calmed down a bit to look at the blue sky of the city "So Kamen Rider Virtualx huh?" He began to smile evilly "I never thought I'd see someone with those abilities of yours again, especially he has a cybercore of a PHOENIX... things have definitely become very interesting, I can't wait to meet you again Rider"

Behind him appeared a portal of red and black as always "With you here, I'm sure you'll bring me much more fun than before when conquering other worlds. I can't wait to meet you again" was the last thing he said before entering the portal and disappearing.

Of course he could have gone and taken advantage of his tired state to defeat him very easily, but...

Where would be the fun?

"This confirms that there is someone else who obtained a cyber driver and managed to unlock his true form," said the female voice on the computer.

"Yeah... so Kamen Rider Virtualx, I don't fight too badly, for an amateur" said the mysterious man with the Hacker Driver

"You always see the bad side of the world," came a sigh from the computer. "In the end, you didn't have to intervene in the first assault of the cybrix on this world, but things are going to get even more complicated."

"Maybe, but I'll leave the fight against the cybrix to Virtualx, at least for a while" he said as he got up from his chair and walked towards the exit of the room "Our plan hasn't changed yet, while Virtualx takes care of facing the monsters of cyberspace, we'll take care of the monsters with human skin" he said with a voice full of hate.

"I still don't like your plan at all, it seems like something the cybrix would do" her voice sounded very sad and depressed

"To survive what's coming, we need power, and in your current state you won't be able to use all of your powers at 100%. This way we can gain even more power with the Hacker Driver and you'll be able to regain your physical form."

"I still don't like it, but I'll support you," he said, his mood a little better. "That's what friends are for-"

"I saved your life, but that doesn't make us friends, just partners against the same enemy," he said with annoyance upon hearing the word friend. "That's all we are."

Then a loud bang was heard as the door was slammed shut.

The computer was the only thing lighting up the room. "The Driver can only be activated by someone who has a good heart. You act cold, but it's obvious that deep down you care about others, that's why you need someone to care about you." There was a pause before hearing a small laugh. "It would be an honor to be that person and call you a friend." Then the computer turned off.

"Are you OK?"

"Does something hurt?"

"Did you rest well? You better lie down again."

"I'm glad you're alive!"

"It was obvious that someone of your level could survive a fight with that cybrix."

"Let's celebrate our first victory!!"

Definitely the first thing I didn't want to hear and see was several of the cyphris being in my face and talking almost all at the same time.

"Everyone! Shut up!!" I yelled at everyone even though my body was tired from the release of that fire of mine that eliminated cyber corruption.

The others understood that I still seemed to be tired from the fight with the cybrix, so they gave me space.

"Thanks," I sighed in relief. "Now, how long was I gone?"

"Like two hours, you looked pretty exhausted when you got here, and it was thanks to the autopilot that you didn't crash while you were here" Aqua answered

"I see" I then look at them better and notice that two others are missing from their group "Where are Terran and Aerion?" I asked curiously.

"Well, they're over there, with Terran scolding Aerion," I notice Terran's angry voice telling him several things that I can't hear well, despite my good hearing. "When you arrived, Terran scolded him very badly for having escaped secretly... again," said Cryon.

"Are they always like this?"

"Believe it or not, Terran usually scolds Aerion a lot for all his escapades in the city, the one who usually follows him is Voltaris, but fortunately, this time he behaved"

"I didn't want Terran to scold me again, she's scary" Voltaris shivered as he remembered how bad a protector Terran can be.

"And they've been scolding him for over two hours now," Film said as he approached them with a bottle of water. "I'm glad to see you awake Stardust, for a moment I feared the worst. Here," he handed him the bottle of water, which I took and drank. I was very thirsty.

"...Thank you," I thanked him. "Is there something I need to know while I was asleep?"

"Well, first of all, the city was invaded by virtronics, but when you defeated the cybrix and burned that strange glitch, they disappeared according to the news"

"Don't you think they've returned to cyberspace?" Virtuix asked.

"Indeed, that's how it was, the Virtronics are just artificial soldiers without conscience, once the cybrix was destroyed, there was no one to give them the order to attack and after you eliminated the cyber corruption, they were forcibly sent into cyberspace" Cryon answered.

"So, it was a victory for us, it's a relief, although there was some destruction of buildings, luckily no one died," he said, relieved.

"But it's not the end, it's just the beginning" my expression became serious, drawing the attention of the others "The cybrix didn't care about human lives, they only wanted destruction, just like they told me"

Terran approached with Aerion at his side "You are right prince, the cybrix will stop at nothing to completely corrupt your world, and most likely they already know we are here from seeing you and Aerion" Terran replied

"Well, I'll be ready to fight them, no matter what, I'm determined to defeat them," I said with great determination that you could almost see fire in my eyes, and I don't mean that metaphorically, there's literally a small flame in my eyes, I guess I have better control over my powers now.

The others smiled at this and gave me their vote of confidence that they would help me, even Film

"It's strange Stardust, you don't seem anything like all the bad things I've heard about you" Film said smiling at me

"And that's bad," I frowned, somewhat annoyed.

"No, of course not," he said, raising his hands. "I guess I'm just glad I can see this side of you that no one else has seen. I mean, you were so hesitant to be a hero before, and now look at you, you're determined to face them."

"Stardust is a very complicated person, believe me, I've been with him for almost my entire life and I can say that his attitude often complicates many things for him and worsens his reputation" Virtuix responded, to which I gave him an annoyed look, but he ignored me.

"Things are different now, when I was there, I realized that a person almost died and if I hadn't gone, both those girls and my mother would have died, and all because of my indecision" I clenched my fists remembering that "They can consider me a criminal and a rebel for the amount of times they arrested me and possibly they are right, but even I know that killing someone is an atrocious and unforgivable act"

"If I do nothing to stop it, then I would be a monster for not stopping it when I have the chance to stop it" I said to stand up and look at nothing with my fist on my chest "Now I understand more than anything that this world needs me, that means that Kamen Rider Virtualx is here to stay, whether people like it or not, or even thank me or not, I will continue forward"

The other cyphris gave a cry of joy when they saw me like that, my words somehow made something inside them light up and they were willing to fight by my side.

Film was silent for a moment and then said something I didn't expect: "Thank you."

"Huh?" I exclaimed, confused by the sudden gratitude.

"I said thank you"

"Because?"

"I just realized that since yesterday, I never thanked you for saving my life" he turned to look at me smiling "When we met you saw me in danger and even though we didn't know each other, you still saved my life, you didn't even know you had these incredible powers, and yet you ran to save me"

"That's a thing of the past, it's not that important," I replied, not giving it much importance and looking away a little.

"Don't be modest! Many people would have ignored me and run away to avoid getting hurt! The fact that you helped me and didn't want anything in return shows that you are truly worthy of being a Kamen Rider!"

"Tch!" I frowned in annoyance.

"Your father is right, you do have the heart of a hero, but it is clear that you will need help to improve your character, you will need a friend."

"Hey hey hey!" I said walking away from the others "Just because you know my secret, doesn't mean we're friends. I'm a loner, I don't have any friends."

"Well, I think you need them urgently. Your mother always says that it's not healthy for a person to be lonely forever," Virtuix replied.

"And I think the reason you're so reserved is because you've never had a real friend with you, so whether you like it or not, we're friends."

"I don't want friends!" I reply, even more annoyed.

"I want to be your friend too, Stardust!" said Voltaris, approaching me. "There are so many things we could do together! So many pranks you could get up to!"

"Hey! Then we could be friends too Dusty!" Aerion said happily approaching me.

"I DON'T WANT FRIENDS!" The other Cyphris and Film laughed a little when they saw this comical scene

"How about a group hug!" suggested Aerion.

"For my sake!!"

"Don't you dare!" I warned them, backing away.

"A group hug can't be that bad prince!" Terran said smiling.

"No problem for me" Cryon

"It would be fun" Aqua

"So all together!" Film exclaimed smiling, while all the Cyphris came up to hug me, and he took out his iPhone to take several photos.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"

Author's Note

And so the third chapter ends, I hope you liked it.
For the next chapter:

Chapter 4: New School / New Problems